Twitter/Facebook were Hacked Today
 

SkyNews
reported this some time ago.

Someone is having a Laugh at taking this mega Site Down.

:bored: I'm having twitter withdrawals.

Really? :conf:

OMG

the celebs will be having a panic attack, not being able to tell the world what they had for lunch!!

haahahahahaha
it was me shhhh

omg twitter is so rubbish

Link: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Tec...s_Cyber-Attack

The person slagging it off ****.

Damn.. They got hacked again? Wow.

I wonder if 4chan is responsible this time.

:bawling:

It's back now, I missed it!

to the person telling the person who's slagging twitter off to ****. ****.
Twitter entry
2:01 "Posting at tibb!!"
2:02 "Think I'll make a pot noodle!!"
2:08 "made a 2 minute pot noodle!! and ate it!!"
2:09 "Posting at tibb.... feeling hungry....!!!"

Yes it will not be a Problem to miss it for a Day.


SkyNews
said it is the Hackers that sometimes do Banks.
There is a part of Russia that can not be
arrested for this crime.
That is Crazy.

Russian Hackers
also Copy Sites
and trick bank customers to get there account.

http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-down/

http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/facebook-down-3/

http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/

Ok i get fed up of updating it ALL the time,but it's only a bit of fun why take it so seriously.

why do
you always
type like this?
:conf2:

cus he can:laugh:

LOL.

:bouncy:
I don't like twitter it seems pointless to me...

"seriously"
was having a laugh dude... hence the p*ss take. I don't mind twitter but the world won't end if it's down for one day or one month.

This is because Twitter allowed themselves to be a tool of the US State Department. They were due to take it down for maintenance during the Iranian elections, but at the US State Department's request kept it up.

Now various regimes who saw what happened during that time, or possibly Iran it self, will do what ever it takes to make sure Twitter is gone for good.

If I were a dictator, I would make sure it was taken down and kept down.

Ok ange7:thumbs:

Yeah... okay.

And you got this info from where exactly?

People can communicate via the net in despotic countries WITHOUT twitter. Plenty of web apps that work well on phones are out there for these users who want to get words and images out of these countries. I think your making twitter seem lots more important than it is.

Thanks for the link.

That's the biggest piece of poo I've ever heard in all my life!

Some of us don't even follow the Iran Election thing, actually, most don't.

I personally use twitter to talk to my friends, follow what my favourite band/idols are doing, and to to generally have a good time.

Some people, like you, clearly, don't like that!

But those other applications do not reach a global scale like Twitter does.

Lets be real here, twitter is much larger than those other sites.

Did you even click the link that he provided?

I wouldn't be surprised if it was some Iranian government plan - although it seems like it wasn't.

But Twitter was used and is still used in Iran by the people who are protesting, its a scarce time over there so Twitter helps them get support and spread the word - Iran blocked Twitter numerous times and have tried to stop the protestors in Iran tweeting, but to no avail.

So I guess this could have been the governments last plan to stop Iranian's from tweeting the situation.

But like I said, it seems like it wasnt anything to do with Iran.

Nothing to do with how large the network of twitter is. Everything to do with "does it work or not". People for example in Iran who were getting shot and killed during the protests needed to get that info out to the world. They used web enabled mobile phones plus ANY app that worked... not just twitter. I doubt twitter would even be the first thing they'd use..So yeah "let's be real then".

The link isn't even from today, it's just a story about the Twitter update being postponed until after the Iran Elections. It's nothing about the "hacking" today and doesn't give explanation.

If you read it, they admit the US State department requested that they delay their maintenance cycle. They can bleat all they like about no doing it because the State department asked them, at the end of the day they did comply, making Twitter a legitimate military target by a government that sees America supporting it's greatest enemy in the region, Israel.

Is twitter gone again, or got very slow?